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I love spring greens!With the current weather it is so wonderful to be outside again. So I am a lot outside these days, working on new material for mash ups for healing environments.(which I will post about later on.)

Speaking of environments; of course I too was shocked by recent events in Japan and also about my current power company, (of whom I'm buying green energy), who is now building a new coal power plant near the 'Wadden sea', a beautiful and protected nature reserve in the Netherlands... ?!?!?!!

All this made me wonder about my personal contribution to the environment.I can't point my finger at those power companies, because photography isn't exactly a 'green' profession, is it now.. I mean, using heavy chemicals for developing photo's, early photographers even gradually poisoned themselves! And nowadays ... well... you get the picture... ;)

Plus I've been around for a while now and my lifestyle like many other peoSo: I've decided to see what I personally can do to make a difference.

How to become a 'greener photographer'.

This means I will try to find ways to make sure I am reducing my "carbon photo footprint". So how am I going to do that?- by gradually implementing steps to more 'greenness'; one step at the time, hopefully one step a week- I am going to call these steps 'green actions'.- It will be my personal quest for greenness to reduce my carbon footstep.- Taking little, do-able, maybe not always perfect, steps - Posting about my findings, actions and experiences in this blog, so you can follow along and maybe get inspired to take 'green actions' yourself (although I do not want to 'preach')- I will not tell you what to do, but I will make suggestions that are (I'll try) easy to follow.- I will try to get people to email me or comment on posts, with suggestions for more improvements.So, here's the first episode!

Green action 1; energy!So the first action, I decided, has to be a change of power company. (Greenpeace actually made me aware and gave me options.)Switching to a power company that produces 100% green electricity and green gas. Energy from durable sources like wind, water, solar and biomass.And that does not ruin my beloved Wadden Sea.For people in The Netherlands: that's Greenchoice! www.greenchoice.nlOh and I just foun out they have a great offer for 1-year customers; save money and become self supplying using solar power;-that's my 'cup of tea' as a photographer; playing with light working and warm at home through light! Hope the panels will fit on my roof...